The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-05-13

says: The condition OF Representative
Heard, of Missouri, has not improved dur
ing the past week. He is still confined to
his bed and unable to talk.
THE EAST.
The Pittsburgh glass mixers and teasers.
who struck two weeks ago for increased
wages, returned to work at the old terms.
ONE polygamist, four burglars and COM
mon thief escaped from Jail at Worcester,
Mass. the other night by overpowering the
guard.
The sixth attempt in six months was
made on the Sd to burn the office Of the New
York Zeitung. The incendiary was not dis
covered.
The Republican Senators in caucus at
Albany, n. Y, on the Sd decided to reject
the Governors nominees for Railroad Com
missioners. Considerable bad blood has
been engendered in the matter between the
Governor and the Senate.
Two men named Brown and O'Hara, who
were sitting on the Baltimore 4 Ohio
track, near Snowdon station, Pa, were
struck by a shifting engine the other night
and instantly killed. The bodies of both
were horribly mangled.
Rev. CHARLES W. WARD, the Englewood.
N. j., rector, recently accused of attempt
ing to murder his wife, was found dead at
the home Of Judge Drew, his counsel, at
Rockland Lake, on the 4th. 1t was sup
posed that he had taken an overdose of
choral
DR.. JOHN NJ. MARSH, professor of materia
medica and botany in the Philadelphia, Pa,
College of Pharmacy, has been elected an
honorary and corresponding member of the
Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain.
AT the meeting of the general passenger
agents of the trunk lines at New York re-
Gently commissions were discussed and the
opinion was unanimous that the abolition
of ticket agents commission was q sue
cess.
Two freight trans on the Pennsylvania
railroad collided at Plainsboro. n. j., the
other morning. Harry Donohue and Harry
CARRIER, tramps, who were stealing a ride,
were seriously injured. Howard Turning, a
fiagman, was badly wounded about the
head, and Harry Boggs. the engineer Of one
of the locomotives, and Albert Recs, the
fireman. Were badly hurt about the limbs
Both locomotives and several cars were
badly wrecked.
RUSSELL SAGE, the New York broker, is
quite confident about the future of West
ern UEion. He says though the dividend
may be deferred it will come at last to
those who wait In the mean time the COM
pany Is recovering from its somewhat I'M
certain financial condition.
THREE attendants at the Buffalo, n. Y,
insane asylum have been indicted for the
murder of an inmate.
NATURAL gas was struck recently at Nor
risville, Madison County, n. Y, at depth
of 400 feet The gas rose to height of
seventy-five feet and with such force as to
destroy the buildings and drill apparatus.
The lower house of the Connecticut.Leg-
islature has passed bill fixing the strong
liquor license at 800 and the beer and wine
tax at $50.
THE British ship Bancla. lis days from
Manila, arrived at New York on the 9th
During the voyage three Of her crew died
Of scurvy, another was at the point of death
and of crew of nineteen men only six
were barely able for duty.
The pool which was formed by different
railroads centering IN Pittsburgh, Pa, to
control the shipments of ores from the
coke parts has been dissolved. The strike
in the coke regions has caused total sus-
pension Of shipments Of coke.
THE steamer Adriatic arrived at New
York on the 9th. Among her passengers
were thirteen men who recently resigned
from the Irish coustabulary because they
were opposed to assisting in evicting ten
ants from their farms.
TELEGRAMs from the Pennsylvania coke
region state that j. Laughlin e. Co, Stew
art Iron Company, Hogsett Il Co., Percy
Mining Company and Everson & Co. have
granted the demands of the strikers and
resumed operations
THE WEST.
A SPECIAL gives the particulars Of the
instant death OF Alfred Arnold BY light